Description
- Location: Hybrid working London and Home
- Full Time or Part Time: Full time
- Contract Type: Permanent
About the team:
ASPIRE is the foundation for how data-driven decisions are made and automated at Sainsbury’s. It’s our corporate memory, democratising petabytes of one of the most valuable & exciting data assets in the UK. ASPIRE powers analytics, reporting, data science, and machine learning across the business.
It isn’t just a data platform – it’s a scalable set of capabilities that enable dozens of teams to deliver high-quality, high-impact data products.
We have three core objectives:
- Empower engineering teams to deliver robust, production-grade data products quickly and consistently.
- Democratise data to power insights & decisions for all of Sainsbury’s, and its partners, while maintaining strong governance, security, and cost control.
- Continuously innovate new ways of generating value from our data at scale.
Our tech stack is:
- Snowflake
- AWS and Azure
- dbt & Airflow (Astronomer)
- Python, Terraform, and GitHub Actions
What you’ll do:
You’ll lead the development of our Data Platform & Capabilities, setting direction, growing the team, and delivering business-critical products at pace and scale. You will:
- Define the north star in partnership with Product, Architecture, and leadership.
- Set the strategy for build vs. buy, investing internal effort where it creates true advantage.
- Lead a high-performing engineering team to deliver valuable features at high pace and quality.
- Recruit, mentor and coach your team, fostering a culture of learning, ownership, and collaboration.
- Own service quality, setting & achieving high SLAs for your users.
- Champion modern engineering practices and agile ways of working.
- Manage third-party partners to maintain high standards of delivery.
- Take ownership of a ~£1m budget and ensure value is delivered responsibly.
What you bring:
- A strong track record in software engineering leadership, ideally with experience running large-scale platforms (data or otherwise).
- Deep technical expertise in Python, Terraform, CI/CD, and cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure).
- A clear and compelling technical vision – and the ability to bring others along with it.
- Experience leading complex, multi-stakeholder deliveries.
- A collaborative leadership style – you build strong relationships and thrive in diverse, cross-functional environments.
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